All you want to know about Local Authority Housing Finance 2012

The 2012 version of ‘All You Want to Know about Local Authority Housing Finance’ will be published in January 2012 and will be the latest version of our useful introduction and companion to the complex and important subject of Local Authority Housing Finance.

It will include an introduction to the new world of self-financing and is the ONLY reputable guide to local authority housing finance that is up to date and reviewed annually.

It is designed for people who are not experts in housing finance, but who need to understand the basics and achieve an overview of what is going on. It is suitable for housing managers, tenant representatives, councillors and finance staff who have no experience of the housing revenue account and others who realise that an understanding of housing finance can place them at an advantage!

It is not a technical guide and neither does it provide step by step instructions for people who need to prepare local authority housing accounts, subsidy claims or other returns.

What the Book includes:

• Housing Revenue Account and Ring-Fencing
• Rents and Service Charges
• Self-Financing and the redistribution of housing debt
• Depreciation and Major Repairs
• Treasury Management with Self-Financing
• Capital Programmes and Decent Homes Standard
• Distribution of Capital Grants by the Homes & Communities Agency
• Housing Business Plans
• Comprehensive Spending Review 2010 and the Big Society
• The November 2010 National Housing Strategy
• Value for Money, Procurement and Shared Services
• Strategic Housing responsibilities
• Supporting People
• Housing Benefit – including the recent and planned reforms
• Options Appraisals, Arms Length Management, Stock Transfer, the Council Community (CoCo) housing model
• Glossary of Terms

The guide is excellent value at £30.00 plus £2.95 postage and packing. The guide will be published in January 2012 but orders can be placed NOW